#corrupt

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#expectation #power #power corrupts #states #though

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

#freemen #slaves #worst

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. ↗

— John Lyly

#dunghill #sun #upon

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. ↗

— Macklemore

#corrupt #easy #essentially #evils #feel

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty